FromMiddle Englishdisjoynen, fromOld Frenchdesjoindre, fromLatindisiungere(“to separate”), fromdis-,di-(“apart”) +iungere(“to join”).
disjoin (third-person singular simple presentdisjoins,present participledisjoining,simple past and past participledisjoined)
- (transitive) Toseparate; todisunite.
1708,Joseph Addison,The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation:Never let us lay down our arms against France, till we have utterlydisjoined her from the Spanish monarchy.
1790,Thomas Pennant,Account Of London:Windmill Street consisted ofdisjoined houses.
- (intransitive) To becomeseparated.
- “disjoin”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “disjoin”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “disjoin”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
